Monday, October 19, 2009....
Over the weekend, two people accomplished amazing feats that I want to recognize.
IRL, my friend Sue, an amazing athlete who come rain or shine, works out at 4:30 a.m. daily, placed 2nd in a 4 woman boat coming in 2 seconds after the first place winner.
When I was texting her the other night, she was disappointed and I quickly pointed out that she could row an amazing race and come in 2nd or .....be sitting on the couch watching t.v..
Sometimes people don't recognize their accomplishments and need lazy couch potatoes, like me, to remind them how AWESOME they are.
Sue, does not have a blog, but the other shout out I want to give does --Living and Loving in LA who ran in the Nike Women's Marathon this past weekend.
My favorite tweet was this: "Mile 11 and all we can think about is beer. Oh, and the finish line! Only 15m to go!"
If you have a moment, stop by Erin's blog and congratulate her. I've walked a marathon and remember the months of training and what it takes. IT'S HUGE!
21 comments:
Awesome accomplishments! Thanks for highlighting both of these feats... wonderful! :)
Those are definitely things to brag about!! Whoohoo!!
Found you through Speaking From The Crib... and I'm going to follow you!
Those are awesome accomplishments... can't want for Erin to post about her run.
Fantastic and awesome!
Hugs!!
kudos to your friends, they are inspiring!
I would be definately talking about that if I could do that! Or atleast my friends would be, but I'm one of those lazy couch potatoes you mentioned. Have fun!
holy cow...she was tweeting while running a marathon. don't be looking for me to do that. i'll be lucky if i'm not crawling on all fours by the end!
Yeah, I'm pretty amazed at the tweeting while running thing. I can't run or tweet but especially not at the same time!
Kudos to both ladies!
♥Spot
Both are very inspiring.
Great achievements indeed; the half marathon nearly killed me so I can only imagine! x
Congrats to the both of them!
You are soooo cute. Thanks Joanie.
It's just hard when I was looking forward to my fourth Head of the Charles 1st place medal ...
Ok, ok - most people never accomplish one. I'm over myself :-)
Sue
(a.k.a - crazy 4:30 AM rower)
Wow. Those are totally inspirational accomplishments. Wow.
Thank you so much! And yes, I did run and Tweet at the same time!!! Haha. I'm talented, what can I say?
Oh, and also VERY sore. I woke up in the body of a 90 year old today!!!
Thanks again!!!
XOXO,
Erin
"Only 15 mi to go"... WOW. Just wow.
Congrats to both!
These are such great accomplishments. You're right- we all need to shine a light on the good things that people do.
I just cannot imagine running that far!
awwwww that IS awesome!!!
I can't imagine doing a marathon - walking, running, or crawling. Massive triumph.
well done to them am tht lazy couch potatoe who has only jst gotten into a routine of working out but fears tht in a few weeks the cold weather will make me give up!
New England Girl – I thought so too!
Eternal Lizdom – Thanks for finding me and following.
Leah - Both were awesome and even motivates me to get off the couch.
Green Eyed Momster – Isn’t though?
rxBambi – I wonder if I touch them their determination will instantly rub off on me.
Deborah - If I did that, I’d be bragging and make my friends brag as well. It’s a killer feat.
OP – Yeah tweeting – what you’re not going to be doing that while running – thought your iPhone was magical.
Spot – I can’t walk and tweet, never mind run and tweet.
Unknown Miami – I think so too!
Helen – I want to run a ½ marathon in the next year or two.
Sue-Sue – hmmm…don’t know if we can be friends anymore. I mean, you’re only a 3 time 1st place winner at the Head of the Charles. Slacker.
Esmerelda – Aren’t they. Running, rowing and then running & tweeting. Walking and chewing gum is hard for me.
Living and Loving in LA – I can’t believe you could tweet and run with no spelling errors – Kudos to you for finishing.
LiLu – I say that while driving in my car – does that count?
Dree – I think we all fall into the trap of only recognizing the negative. It’s great to shout, cheer for and scream all the great stuff we accomplish.
Otin – Yeah, I’d get bored.
Constructive Attitude – Isn’t it!
Midlife Jobhunter – LOL – but you swim, so maybe you can swim across the English Channel.
Fgrngtllt – No you won’t. I have faith in you.
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